Disney First Studio Ever To Have 5 Pics Cross $1 Billion In Single Year With ‘Toy Story 4’ – Deadline

And the year is not even half way over yet plus frozen 2 and star wars is not out yet!

Disney is the first studio in history to have 5 billion dollar movies in one year with toy story 4 crossing the billion club!

 

Aww, that's awesome. Always nice to see a little multi-gerbillion dollar publicly traded global corporation with an arguable monopoly on media finally catch a break. About time, Disney, about damn time.  

 

Yay, let's cheer Disney drowning out the competition with endless soulless remakes, sequels, and meaningless superhero movies. All of which will be forgotten in ten years. Aren't monopolies grand? And, soon they'll have a monopoly on streaming services too! Woot! Let's cheer that too!

While the rest of industry crashes and burns.

 

Time to celebrate how despite a company having kind of an awful year with the majority of the films from Fox, the soulless cash grab films that Disney is okay with putting out still are the ones that are successful. The only two films that have made the billion dollar club this year from Disney that are good are Endgame and Toy Story 4. Even then you can argue Toy Story 4 is a soulless move on Pixar's part.

It sucks that original stuff isn't getting made by big studios now and that every film has to be a major release on the studio's part because now almost no one is going to see smaller films for the reason that they aren't mega franchises.

I'm really 50/50 on Disney's stuff right now. I don't want to keep supporting their endless monopoly of everything but at the same time they do release some good stuff that I genuinely want to see. I just hope other studios can start learning from these past few awful years at the summer box office and turn that around with good, original stuff.

Maybe major studios will learn from the successes of films this year like Us and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and start releasing original stuff as their big flagpole films of the summer. I know Christopher Nolan's next film, Tenet, is going to be one film like that next summer.

 

Disney is getting too much powerful.

 

Something that struck me in the Honest Trailers for the Cars franchise was how it was described as the paycheck that funded Ratatouile, WALL-E, Up, and Toy Story 3. 2019 of all years is a MASSIVE year for Disney. Captain Marvel, Far From Home, Endgame, Aladdin, The Lion King, Toy Story 4, Frozen 2, and Rise of Skywalker. Maybe this was like the funding year for Disney as they get ready for what’s coming in the 2020’s. Maybe they’ve got some big new stuff planned and they want to be sure they have the money, so they lined up star players like Lion King and Frozen and Endgame in particular this year to make sure they had the money.

Or hell maybe they wanted a bunch of these guaranteed billion dollar hits so that they could pay off the Fox purchase?

 

That doesn’t really check out as they have only one or two original films slated for the next half decade

 

That’s just that, half the decade. Marvel’s Phase 4 proves that a lot can go into just 2 years. My theory can still check out, I’m suggesting they released a bunch of guaranteed hits to fund what’s coming next in the 2020’s.

 

Cool, kick Mickey to the curb and let Scrooge McDuck be the Disney mascot.

 

DuckTales, Woo-oo!

 

Did Ducktales predict how much money Disney is going to have by the end of the year?

 

Are you British? That felt incredibly British, therefore I loved it and wholeheartedly approve. You get a like, sir.

 

I’m glad this was the first reply I read.

I feel nothing but mild apathy with a slight side of nausea at this news.

 

Alternatively, all the other companies could pull their fingers out of their arses and start trying to compete and putting out quality content of their own.

 

Alternatively to that, they are putting out quality content, while Disney puts out quantity content to drown it out.

 

Eh, not entirely true. While there are DC fans and the public (myself included) enjoyed some of the DCU movies thus far, more often than not WB's offerings have been pretty dour and awful. It took James Wan to make Aquaman a fun romp and even then, people found reasons to b!7c#. MCU is by far the better series. 1 point to Disney.

Paramount's handling of Transformers. Say no more.

When it was Fox, they utterly destroyed the massive X-Men world they built with the first film and X2 and even course-corrected with DOFP...and still somehow blew it. The New Mutants is so bad, Disney considers it unwatchable. I saw the trailer and thought "Is this a horror movie or a mutant movie? Because I'm confused and need a map I'm so lost." I mean, even Sony learned their lesson and learned how to play ball with Disney.

If we're counting Netflix, the days of them putting out quality flicks ended with Adam Sandler. He's consistently brought nothing but garbage to the table with them.

I'm not saying Disney's the best ever, but at least some of what they're putting out IS quality along with being one of many. People can say Disney's the worst company in the world (and they'd probably be right), but they're not as bad as people think when it comes to the movies they put out. None of them are perfect (no movie is), but they're arguably a heck of a lot better than their competitors. Heck, better than the company they just absorbed. Hate all you want, but they do have a winning formula.

 

I hadn't considered that, but I really hope this is the case. Outside of Marvel, Disney has felt kind of stale in recent years. It would be great if they had some really awesome projects on the horizon.

 

Here's the thing, I would easily argue that the X-Men movies are just as high quality as the MCU. Especially after the First Class movie. It's not like the MCU is raising the bar high. It might have meant high quality back in phase 2. But, they've been lowering that bar ever since.

Disney's drowning out all the other films is so bad, that they even drown out their own films. Dumbo came out two weeks after Captain Marvel, and a month before End Game. That movie was dead before it even was released. Regardless of quality.

But, let's just say you're right. All those movies are terrible. But, what about all the other movies that have come out in the last 10 years? There's an average of 5 to 10 movies a week that are released. IN theaters. Each and every week. Just how many of them are also terrible?

 

Even if YOU think Disney doesn't deserve to make so much money, there are obviously people that do enjoy the movies and there are enough that make Disney so much money. If Lion King was such garbage, it sure wouldn't be close to $500M domestic. Clearly a huge amount of people enjoy it to get it so high.

 

How unfortunate.